MEGA SESSION: Change Management: Mastering the Skill of Influence
What truly influential HR professionals understand is that the key to creating change is intentional influence - the ability to both motivate and enable employee performance. Drawing from the skills of successful leaders, successful change efforts, and more than six decades of the best social science research, Grenny will share a proven model for leading change, a model that was named the Change Management Approach of the Year by MIT's Sloan Management Review. We will explore case studies to learn how others have successfully influenced strategically critical behavior change in their companies and how you can increase your capacity to influence rapid, sustainable change in your own organization.
Joseph Grenny
Joseph is an acclaimed keynote speaker and business strategy expert. For the past twenty-five years, he has designed and implemented major corporate change initiatives. He has advised thousands of leaders on every major continent, from the board rooms of Fortune 500 companies to the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. Joseph was formerly president of California Computer Corporation and an executive for the Covey Leadership Center. He is coauthor of the New York Times bestsellers Change Anything, Crucial Conversations, Crucial Confrontations, and Influencer. Joseph cofounded Unitus, a nonprofit organization that helps third-world poor achieve economic self-reliance.